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TO ALL MEMBERS  - 4 -  February 16, 1943

Your representatives have become so familiar with this species that they can recognize them at 20 paces without even squinting.  ALPA abhors chiselers in any form because they are the common enemy of all principles of square dealing.

I remember, several years ago while testifying before a congressional committee, I used the word "chiselers" and one of the congressmen on the committee took the position that it was a rather rude word.  Another congressman immediately came to my support and said:  "If Mr. Behncke can be accused of using improper language when he refers to certain individuals as 'chiselers' then President Roosevelt is likewise guilty because that is the way he refers to people he regards as boot-top dealers."

In short, no one likes a chiseler, and to be perfectly frank, any member who rides along as a first or reserve pilot and each month collects his pay check according to this status, and pays Association copilots' dues, is a chiseler in every possible respect.  Some of these discrepancies may be due to oversight, but a great many of them are deliberate.

Let's all check up on ourselves and, if we are paying dues in the wrong status, send Headquarters a note stating "I am now a first pilot (or reserve pilot, as the case may be), and I have been in this status since _____."  Your ALPA financial record will immediately be brought up to date without any further ado, and I am sure it will make for a healthier organization condition in all respects.

LOGGING COPILOTS' TIME
Several months ago the following paragraph appeared in a letter sent to Headquarters by one of our leading copilot representatives:

"Another discrepancy that is currently causing trouble is the fact that the Army permits a copilot to log the full flight time of the trip while the CAR will permit a copilot to log only fifty percent of the flight time of the trip operated on a passenger service.  This latter discrepancy is all uncalled for, in our opinion, and only creates needless friction among the copilots."  

We immediately took the matter up in Washington and we have been working on it ever since.

In a recent letter from the Civil Aeronautics Board, the following paragraphs appeared: 

"This is with further reference to your letter of November 14, 1942, concerning the logging of flight time by copilots.  We wish to assure you that the Civil Aeronautics Board has taken no action which would permit an Army copilot to receive credit for flight time in any way other than that set up in the Civil Air Regulations.
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